Tuesday 2-26-19I can explain how innovations in communications AND technology contributed to the growth of mass culture, WHILE significant changes occurred in internal AND international migration patterns.

I can explain how popular culture grew in influence in U.S. society, EVEN as debates increased over the effects of culture on public values, morals, AND American national identity.

Agenda Homework1. Questions AP 322. Two Minute Drill Presentation3. Essay Writing: the Introduction

1. Read! Think! Ask Questions!American Pageant 757-768 – RQ 32

Prompt 111

1. DESCRIBE the context and EXPLAIN the significance of the following sources:

Source A

Source B

Source C

APUSH Reading Notes – Chapter 31:

American Life in the “Roaring Twenties”

I. The United States in the 1920s: Shunned diplomatic commitments Denounced “radical” foreign ideas Condemned “un-American” lifestyles Shut immigration gates

II. Economic Boom: New technologies, New consumer products, New forms of leisure

III. Anxiety

Seeing Red -- “Red Scare”Billy Sunday -- A. Mitchell Palmer -- Buford (“Soviet Ark”)Free speech – denial of seats in the state legislatures (Victor L. Berger)Management and Labor (closed v. open shops)Sacco and Vanzetti (“judicial lynching” – “class struggle”)

Hooded Hoodlums of the KKK KKK – targeted Blacks, Catholics, Jews, pacifists, Communists, Modernists, etc. (Know-Nothings)

Stemming the Foreign Flood Emergency Quota Act, 1921 (quota=3% of nationality living in US by 1910) Immigration Act, 1924 (quota=2% of nationality living in US by 1890, No Japanese)The Prohibition Experiment (the “noble experiment”)Prohibition (18th Amendment – Volstead Act)Jazz Age – speakeasies – rumrunners – blind tigersProhibition = Gangsters (Al Capone)

Scopes Trial/Education in the 1920s John Dewey = Progressive (like Horace Mann, Noah Webster - Second Great Awakening) [Freedmen’s Bureau] Rockefeller Foundation – hookworm (Captains of Industry – Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister)Fundamentalists v. Modernists [Debate over Darwinism, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll v. Billy Sunday]Scopes Trial

Mass Consumption Economy Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon – Automobile – Bruce BartonAutomobileHenry Ford – Model TFrederick W. Taylor – “Taylorism” = production efficiency

Gasoline Age

Cars impact on other industries (rubber, glass, fabrics, road building, garages, etc.) (Economics called externalities)Markets (expanded) – social changes (churches, schools, young people)Airplane [Airplanes impact on the world (ESP)]1903 – Wright Brothers – World War I – passenger lines/airmail contracts (gov. subsidy)1927 – Charles a Lindbergh

The Radio Revolution 1890s – Marconi, wireless telegraphy1920 – KDKA, Pittsburgh, broadcast Harding’s victory

Hollywood’s Filmland Fantasies 1903 = The Great Train Robbery / 1915 = The Birth of a Nation / 1927 = The Jazz Singer

The Dynamic Decade (Changes in American lifestyles and values)1920 Census, America = urban, not rural“woman’s work” = low-paying clerical and household-type workMargaret Sanger/birth control – flappers – Sigmund FreudFundamentalists v. Modernists debate

Jazz Harlem Renaissance – Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues (Claude McKay, Zora Neal Hurston)Marcus Garvey, United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Black Star Line Steamship Co. [American Colonization Society] – [Nation of Islam] – [Washington – Du Bois]

Cultural Liberation Shift from Protestant New Englanders to ethnic and regional writersSpokesman of the Modern = H.L. Mencken, American MercuryF. Scott Fitzgerald – Ernest Hemingway – Sinclair Lewis – William FaulknerEzra Pound – T.S. Eliot – Robert FrostFrank Lloyd Wright – Empire State Building

Wall Street’s Big Bull MarketSignals of the coming crash: failing banks, land speculation, stock market speculation (“on the margin”)Federal Government’s response? Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, tax cutsNational Debt: 1914 = $1.2 billion – 1921 = $24 billion (Melon’s policies reduced debt to about $16 bil)

Past Essay Prompts for the AP US History Exam – 1920s & 1930s

1. Review each of the following prompts. 2. Identify College Board’s patterns in constructing these prompts. The 1920’s

A. Historians have argued that Progressive reform lost momentum in the 1920s. Evaluate this statement with respect to TWO of the following: regulation of business, labor, immigrants.

B. Analyze the origins and outcomes of the intense cultural conflicts of the 1920s. In your response, focus on TWO of the following: Immigration, Prohibition, Religion.

C. How did TWO of the following help shape American national culture in the 1920s? Advertising, entertainment, mass production.

D. In what ways did economic conditions and development in the arts and entertainment help create the reputation of the 1920s as the Roaring Twenties?

E. The 1920s have been characterized as a decade of economic, social, and cultural change. Analyze the extent to which the First World War and consumerism affected United States society during this period.

F. The 1920’s witnesses an assault by rural and small town America on Urban America. Assess the validity of this generalization.

G. The economic policies of the federal government from 1921 to 1929 were responsible for the nation’s depression of the 1930’s. Assess the validity of this generalization.

The New Deal Era

I. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is commonly thought of as a liberal and President Herbert Hoover as a conservative. To what extent are these characterizations valid?

J. Analyze the responses of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration to the problems of the Great Depression. How effective were these responses? How did they change the role of the federal government? Use the documents and your knowledge of the period 1929-1941 to construct your essay.

K. How successful were the programs of the New Deal in solving the problems of the Great Depression? Assess with respect to TWO of the following: Relief, Recovery, Reform.

L. The New Deal did not radically alter American business, but conserved and protected it. Assess the validity of this statement.

M. Despite artificial similarities, the domestic programs of the New Deal constituted a fundamental departure from those of the Progressive Era. Assess the validity of this generalization.

N. Although often defended and attacked on purely economic grounds, the federal tariff policies of the U.S. have been more important politically than economically. Assess the validity of this generalization in regard to TWO tariffs in U.S. history.

O. Despite often brutal clashes between labor and capital in the United States during the period 1865-1940, collective working-class protest did not constitute a basic attack on the capitalistic system. Assess the validity of this statement.

P. Analyze the ways in which the Great Depression altered the American social fabric in the 1930’s.

Q. Identify Three of the following New Deal measures and analyze the ways in which each of the three attempted to fashion a more stable economy and a more equitable society.

Agricultural Adjustment Act Wagner National Labor relations Act

Securities and Exchange Commission Social Security Act

Isolationism and War

S. To what extent and why did the United States adopt an isolationist policy in the 1920’s and 1930’s?

T. To what extent did the United States achieve the objectives that led it to enter World War I?

Across Time Essay Prompts

U. From 1790 to the 1870’s, state and national governments intervened in the American economy mainly to aid private economic interests and promote economic growth.

Between 1890 and 1929, however, government intervention was designed primarily to curb and regulate private economic activity in the public interest.

Assess the validity of this statement, discussing for EACH of these periods at least TWO major areas of public economic policy.

V. The legal, political, and economic rights achieved by minorities and women in the United States have come largely during periods of major reform movements, which both helped the struggles of these groups and set limits to them.

Assess the validity of this statement for the history of one or more of these groups in the period 1830 – 1920.

W. Analyze the primary causes of the population shift from a rural to an urban environment in the United States between 1875 and 1925.

X. Describe and account for the rise of nativism in American society from 1900 to 1930.

APUSH Period 7: 1890-1945

I can explain how growth expanded opportunity, while economic instability led to new efforts to reform U.S. society AND its economic system.

I can explain how the United States continued its transition from a rural, agricultural economy TO an urban, industrial economy led by large companies.

I can explain how, in the Progressive Era of the early 20th century, Progressives responded to political corruption, economic instability, and social concerns

by calling for greater government action AND other political and social measures.

I can explain how, during the 1930s, policymakers responded to the mass unemployment AND social upheavals of the Great Depression by transforming the U.S. into a limited welfare state, redefining the goals AND ideas of modern American liberalism.

I can explain how innovations in communications AND technology contributed to the growth of mass culture, while significant changes occurred in internal AND international migration patterns.

I can explain how popular culture grew in influence in U.S. society, even as debates increased over the effects of culture on public values, morals, AND American national identity.

I can explain how economic pressures, global events, and political developments

caused sharp variations in the numbers, sources, AND experiences of both international AND internal migrants.

I can explain how participation in a series of global conflicts propelled the United States into a position of international power while renewing domestic debates over the nation’s proper role in the world.

I can explain how in the late 19th century and early 20th century, new U.S. territorial ambitions AND acquisitions in the Western Hemisphere AND the Pacific accompanied heightened public debates over America’s role in the world.

I can explain how World War I AND its aftermath intensified ongoing debates about the nation’s role in the world AND how best to achieve national security AND pursue American interests.

I can explain how U.S. participation in World War II transformed American society, while the victory of the United States AND its allies over the Axis powers vaulted the U.S. into a position of global, political, AND military leadership.

Reading Schedule for 2019

2/18 – M GL Reading: World War IGL Reading: Modern Women Persuading Modern Men

2/19 – T Review2/20 – W APUSH Test #12 (30)2/21 – Th American Pageant 720-7322/22 – F AMSCO Chapters 7-8

2/25 – M American Pageant 732-745 – RQ 31Women's Suffrage: Crash Course US History #31

2/26 – T American Pageant 746-7572/27 – W American Pageant 757-768 – RQ 322/28 – Th Review

The Roaring 20's: Crash Course US History #32The Great Depression: Crash Course US History #33

3/1 – F AMSCO Chapters 9-11

3/4 – M Essay Writing Workshop3/5 – T Essay Writing Workshop3/6 – W Spring Break3/7 – Th Spring Break3/8 – F Spring Break

3/11 – M American Pageant 770-7913/12 – T American Pageant 791-799 – RQ 333/13 – W Review3/14 – Th APUSH Test #13 (31-33)3/15 – F AMSCO Chapters 12-15

End of Grading Period 3